# A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall

**Author:** Jasmine Warga
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2025
**Genre:** Middle Grade Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9781420520835`
**ISBN-10:** `1420520830`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-strange-thing-happened-in-cherry-hall
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

From Newbery Honor author Jasmine Warga comes an atmospheric middle-grade mystery set in an old museum, where a theft, a ghost, and an unlikely friendship come together. Selected for the 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (grades 3-5), chosen each year by the Oklahoma Library Association.

## Themes

- mystery
- friendship
- art

## Content notes

- ghosts

## Where this book is assigned

### Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)

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